Original Article Over at Digg: http://digg.com/news...in_the_pc_space
Something about Windows 8 has displeased the current managing director of Valve. Despite having a faster kernel yet, Gabe Newell dismissed the soon to be released new Windows operating system as "a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space." Such harsh word from a video game development genius whose prominence on the PC market is unprecedented must mean something.
This is a man who left Microsoft in 1996 to found the video game company Valve through the Half Life series. Through his leadership Valve has produced amazing games such as the whole of the Half Life series, Portal, Counter Strike, Team Fortress, the left 4 dead series, and leading a software download crusade in the form of Source. Not a single one of these games has been anything less than worldwide hits.
This man knows a little about software development.